Patrick Cox

The other day, I was in Chinatown in New York City, eating dim sum with Yen Yen Woo and Colin Goh. They’re a married couple, transplants from Singapore. For reasons that’ll soon become clear, I couldn’t help imagining that those little Chinese snacks we were eating were…alive. Now, some Asian food items really are alive […]

The World’s Gerry Hadden has lived in Catalonia for eight years. He speaks English, Spanish, French and German. But not Catalan. His kids speak it, his neighbors speak it, FC Barcelona speak it. Gerry doesn’t speak Catalan because he doesn’t need to.

Is the BBC’s huge well of public trust in danger of drying up? A veteran news anchor says its managers must stop speaking the ‘gobbledygook’ of bureaucratic jargon and start properly overseeing its output.

The BBC has issued linguistic guidelines for journalists covering the Paralympics. But as The World’s Patrick Cox reports, the guidelines are for English words only. Many BBC journalists work for foreign language programs, and are having trouble translating some of the terms.